My personal experience with laptop batteries was not as nice as yours, but neither should be blindly trusted.

Not sure if there is some science on it anywhere but this random search result article https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/help-my-laptop-battery-is-swollen-now-what says:

most common cause of a swollen battery is overcharging. Keeping your battery at a high state of charge can stress it out, allowing it to degrade faster. “In an application where you have a system plugged in 24/7, after a number of years your likelihood of getting a swollen battery increases,” says Phil Jakes, principal engineer and director of strategic technology at Lenovo. “The other thing that drives it is heat. Batteries don’t like to be hot, and there’s a chemical process that gets kicked off when a battery gets over 100 degrees.”

Don’t keep your device plugged in all the time. Batteries are cyclical and have to discharge and recharge to work effectively.

Keep your devices in cool, dry environments. Hot and humid weather conditions put more strain on batteries and can shorten their operating life over time.

When shopping for a new battery, buy from reputable manufacturers. It’s generally better to buy a replacement from the original laptop maker than the cheapest compatible option from a third party.

Replace your battery—if you can—if you see its capacity drop too low. Manufacturers test their computer batteries to last up to three to four years, while an iPhone battery is meant to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 charge cycles. If you start to see any warning signs, replace it sooner rather than later.

More like build-in UPS that will do the forbidden caprisun and set your house on fire after a year.

I’m currently looking into Ghost. What choices turned you off of it.

I installed the paid version of Zorin on my Parents machines, because while I could set it up for them just the same and then maintain it until they die, I’d rather pay 50$ and have nearly 0 work to do.

I make way over 50$ for 1 hour or Linux tech support, so there is no world where it would be worth.

But besides that I don’t think your attitude is particularely useful for people that would rather shit just work than spend hours on setting it up themselves.

From the website landing page :

New programs and updates are provided automatically for the life of your WOW! Computer.

From https://www.mywowcomputer.com/open-source/

Distro is based on tiny core

The source files can be found by following 3 links deep to https://www.telikin.com/source/ doesn’t look like they include their frontend though, which might be proprietary, idk.

(you lazy bastard /j)

borgmatic

I have found no good GUI solution yet. So I have set up borgmatic and a custom bash alias and it’s really easy. If you get stuck and want help with it, hit me up.

dokploy is good as well

radicale can do cantacts as well btw. so that you can use the stock android contacts app. At least with DAVx5 on android.

My current setup:

~/.bashrc

  stty intr \^x
  bind -f ~/.inputrc

~/.inputrc

set bind-tty-special-chars off

set colored-stats on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items -1
set page-completions off

"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\C-h": nop
"\C-s":"\C-asudo "

And in Konsole I have remapped copy to ctrl+C and paste to ctrl+V .

I honestly don’t remember what each config line is for, cause it has been so long ago. And probably you don’t want all of that. Probably best to throw it into an AI and let it explain it line by line.

If you need any help, ping me and I’ll share my setup.

The reason you gave still falls under the concept of ergonomics.

From wikipedia:

Ergonomics, also known as human factors or human factors engineering (HFE), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Primary goals of human factors engineering are to reduce human error, increase productivity and system availability, and enhance safety, health and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction between the human and equipment.

It would be a more ergonomic (and less error prone) system if you modify the shortcuts so that you don’t fumble them.

Wait till you find out that your SSD has it’s own CPU, RAM and is running software on it’s own micro-OS just for writing bits to flash storage.

Wait even more until you find out the same is true for your SIM card.

If you survive the shock, you could go on and write software that runs entirely on your SIM card in fucking JAVA.

I’ve been using ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste for over a decade in my linux terminal by remapping the interrupt to ctrl+x.

It’s basic ergonomics and user friendliness.

I do it on all my personal devices and servers.

Nothing bad happened in those ~15 years that I’ve been doing that. What the fuck are you arguing about?

btrfs

Aaah finally, malware for Linux, truly the year of the Linux Desktop!

I have btrfs snapshots with snapper on my desktop. It keeps the last 20 snapshots. Sending them to a second drive would require an equal amount of space as the main drive, which is ~850GB / 1T full.

But the borg backup for the same takes only ~450GB and also keeps the last 20 versions. Because of the smaller size, sending the backup over the network is also quicker than with btrfs.

So I use btrfs to restore situations about filechanges (for example a bad system update).

Borg is easier to set up a central server for all my devices, because it takes much less space. I run https://github.com/Ravinou/borgwarehouse . So I use that in case where the drive fails. To restore I set up the same partition layout as before and then throw the borg backup at it. It was easy enough so far.

Am I blind? Where is the docker-compose? J find references to it in the doc and in the PR’s but I don’t see it in the files.

I have successfully recovered from dead drives by restoring from a borgbackup to a fresh new drive.

Borg backups take much less space on the backup storage because of extremely efficient compression and deduplication.

The Professor who developed it has some presentations on youtube and it’s kind of mindblowing.

So thats what I would recommend.

I backup all my computers and servers with borgmatic which makes it a bit easier to manage excluding directories and how many versions you’d like to keep.

If you need any help with setting it up, let me know.

I run Dokploy which is like yunohost but a little bit more advanced.

No idea!

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=847

Some old versions seem to run fine.

I just looked it up again and it has no plugins, I confused it with a different solution and the fact that there are lots of third party tools around firefly which use the API for automatic imports. But there is no dedicated way to change the web GUI afaik. It still may be a possibility to use the API to attach some other investment tracking tool.

https://docs.firefly-iii.org/references/data-importer/third-party-tools/